Picker check-strap holder for looms.



M. L. STONE.

PIGKER CHECK STRAP HOLDER FOB LOOMS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 23. 19 09.

Patented 0ct. 18,1910.

' upper end of the picker-stick travels.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

MELVTN L. STONE, OF LEWIS'ION. MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO DRAPER COMPANY, OF HOPE- DALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

PIGKER CHECK-STRAP HOLDER FOR LOOMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

Application filed April 23, 1909. Serial No. 491,722.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Mnu'ix L. Sroxn, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Lewiston, county of Androscoggin, State of Maine, have invented an Improvement in Picker Check-Strap Holders for Looms, of which the following description. in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing rep; resenting like parts. i

In many looms a check-strap or band of leather or other material is made into a loop and mounted on the lay near its outer end, the picker-stick moving within. and longi tudinally of the loop, the length of which is less than the stroke of the inclosed part of the picker-stick. The check-strap has heretofore been connected with the lay by a metal bracket depending therefrom and at tached by short screws or bolts to the lay, the fastening members having to be short of necessity owing to the slotted guide-way in the adjacent part of the lay in which the The intermittent and rapidly recurring blows of the picker-stick upon the looped check-strap tend to loosen the bracket fastenings, and sometimes to break them, and annoyance and delay are occasioned thereby, for the loom is thrown out of action during repairs, with consequent loss of production. Not only that, but in again applying or fastening the bracket to the la it is sometimes necessary to slightly shi t the bracket in order to get a fresh part of the lay for the -1nsert1on of the fastening member, and this has a tendency to weaken the lay.

My present invention has for its object the production of novel means for attaching the check-strap to the lay,.whereby I am enabled to utilize the means by which the lay-sword and lay are fastened together. I thus dispense with other fastening or at taching means for the check-strap holder, and I provide for a ery firm, strong and se cure attachment of the holder to the lay.

The various novel features of my invention will be fully described in the. subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in tie following claims.

Figure l is a rear elevation of one end of the lay of a loom, with one form of; my

present invention ei'nbodiefi therein; Fig. 3 i

is a -front elevation oi: the la and some of the parts thereon shown in 1g. 1.; Fig. 3

is a view in ele ationof the check'strap holder, detached.

In the drawings A represents the outer end of the lay of a loom, of usual construction, cutaway at the back at A, Fig; l.

below and to accommodate the casting B j which forms a part of the usual race-plate:

C is the picker-stick, and D is the upper end of the lay-sword, haying alateral extens on or wing D pro ect1ng toward the outer end screw-bolts E, E, all substantially as usual. This wing D rests against the back of the and having its frontside supported and.

guided by lugs g, 9 depending from the extension G of the castin G which forms a chute or directing pan or spent or ejected bobbins in certain types'of automatic filling replenishing looms. 4

At. the back the ends of the check-strap are brought together and overlapped, where they are connected by a suitable bolt f, Fig. 1. which enters and is su orted by a depending ear Hon the holll er H, shown separately in Fig. 3. This holder is made as an elongated plate-like metal bracket, shaped to fitthe cut-away part A of the lay, Fig. 1, and rest against theback of the lay, the

inner end of the holder being offset from the Apert-ures h, h are formed in the over lapping part H of the holder, to register with the bolt-holes in the wing, and when the holder is positioned as shown in Fig. 1 the part H overlaps the end D of the wing, the holes h and 71- then registering with theholes in the wing for the screw bolts E,.E. Said bolts are then applied and screwed into the lay, in usual manner, and they not only rigidl and securely connect the lay-sword and the lay but also fix the check-strap holder securely in place, the fitting or shaping of the. part H. of the holder to the end of the wing assisting the bolts in retaining the holder in place.

of the lay and rigidly attached theretofb y By making the bolts E and E serve as fastening means common to both the lay- .sword and the check-strap holder I do away with the necessity of separate fastenings tor the latter: obviate making additional screw or bolt-holes in the lay, and make use of the stronv lay-sword fastening bolts to perform 'theadded function of attaching the holder.

Any suitable form of checkstrap may be employed in connection with my novel holder, the invention residing in the latter and its mode of attachment to the lay, rather than in any particular structure of the check-strap.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is I 1. The combination, with a lay and a, laysword having a lateral wing extendiiig tow'ardthe' outer end of the lay and applied to the back thereof, of a picker check-strap, a holder therefor resting against .the back of the lay between its outer end and the wing and shaped to overlap a portion of said. wing .and bolts connecting the wing and the holderwith the lay, said bolts passing through the overlapping portion of the holder and forming the sole fastening connection between it and the lay.

2. The combination, with a lay and a laysword having a lateral wing applied to the back of the lay, of a picker check-strap, an. elongated holding bracket resting against the back of the lay andhaving its inner end overlappinga part of said wing, and having a depending integral ear for attachment to the check-strap, and bolts connecting the wing and the lay and passing through the part of the holder overlapping the wing, to secure the holder fixedly in place.

3. The combination with a lay, a lay-sword having a lateral extension resting against the back of the lay and extended toward its outer end, and diagonally arrange-d bolts rigidly connecting said extension and the lay, ofa metallic holder for the picker checkstrap located at the back of the. lay, and

having its inner end offset from its main plane and fitting and overlappmg the bolt receiving extension, said overlapping part of the holder having openings to receive the bolts, whereby the holder and thelay-sword are attached to the lay by the same bolts, the

latter constituting the sole fastening connection between the lay and the holder.

In testimony whereof. I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MEL-VIN L. STONE.

Witnesses FLORENCE B. CASH, DANA S. WILLIAMS. 

